Thurber Quotes

7 quotes by 7 authors

• Leaders are problem solvers by talent and temperament, and by choice. For them, the new information environment-undermining old means of control, opening up old closets… — Harlan Cleveland
• I was so lucky that I didn't have anyone to copy, be impressed by. I had developed my own style, I was creating before I… — Shel Silverstein
• Thurber did not write the way a surgeon operates, he wrote the way a child skips rope, the way a mouse waltzes. — Elwyn Brooks White
• Thurber was asked by a correspondent: "Why did you have a comma in the sentence, 'After dinner, the men went into the living-room'?" And his… — Lynne Truss
• It was Lisa, aged five, whose mother asked her to thank my wife for the peas we had sent them from our garden. 'I thought… — James Thurber
• Humor is, I think, the subtlest and chanciest of literary forms. It is surely not accidental that there are a thousand novelists, essayists, poets or… — Leo Rosten
• Many of the writers who have inspired me most are outside the genre: Humorists like Robert Benchley and James Thurber, screenwriters like Ben Hecht and… — John Scalzi

Who Wrote These Thurber Quotes

7 authors contributed a total of 7 Thurber Quotes as follows:

• 1 Thurber Quote by Harlan Cleveland
• 1 Thurber Quote by Shel Silverstein
• 1 Thurber Quote by Elwyn Brooks White
• 1 Thurber Quote by Lynne Truss
• 1 Thurber Quote by James Thurber
• 1 Thurber Quote by John Scalzi
• 1 Thurber Quote by Leo Rosten